Tag: Air Quality

How Two Schools Integrated Indoor Air Quality and Energy Efficiency

How Two Schools Integrated Indoor Air Quality and Energy Efficiency In 2006 the Blue Valley School District (BVSD) in Overland Park, Kansas, was the first school district in the nation to receive the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) IAQ Tool for Schools National Model of Sustained Excellence Award for its efforts to improve IAQ and energy […]

Impacts of Indoor Air Quality in Schools

Impacts of Indoor Air Quality in Schools As older school buildings are replaced, renovated, or retrofitted with new equipment, there is the opportunity to make changes that will both improve IAQ for students and teachers and increase energy efficiency. Taken together, these improvements can have substantial benefits from a health and business perspective. In the […]

Public Participation in Air Permitting

There have been many challenges confronting the EPA and Texas–challenges that are also faced by other large states–in reaching common ground regarding the level of public participation in the air permitting process and how that level is to be achieved. For example, air permitting can cover a wide range of both major actions that require […]